Montgomery Beer Bottling Works v. Gaston
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. Heard before tlie Hon. A. D. Sayre. Tills action was brought by Philip D. Puder, doing business under the name and style of the Montgomery Beer Bottling Works, against John B. Gaston, as Judge of Probate of Montgomery County, Ala., to recover the sums of $110 and $27.50 paid by Puder to Gaston as license tax in accordance with the provisions of “An .act to amend the revenue laws of the State of Alabama,” approved Feb. 23, 1899, and…
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Appeal from the City Court of Montgomery. Heard before tlie Hon. A. D. Sayre. Tills action was brought by Philip D. Puder, doing business under the name and style of the Montgomery Beer Bottling Works, against John B. Gaston, as Judge of Probate of Montgomery County, Ala., to recover the sums of $110 and $27.50 paid by Puder to Gaston as license tax in accordance with the provisions of “An .act to amend the revenue laws of the State of Alabama,” approved Feb. 23, 1899, and commissions thereon. The complaint, as filed, contained twelve counts. The first eight counts sought to recover from the…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
The only question we need consider on this appeal, according to the view we take of it, is the ■constitutionality of the “Act to amend the revenue laws of Alabama,” approved February 23d, 1899 (Acts 1898-99, p. 164). The other question so elaborately discussed by counsel, of the constitutionality of the Fourteenth subdivision of section 16 of said act, must share the fate of the general enactment, of which it is a part, if that he held to be unconstitutional.
’ The question raised by the plaintiff on this appeal is, that said act of the 23d of February, 1899, was never constitutionally…
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